AKA: State of California, Southern California State Asylum for Insane and Inebriates, Main Building, Patton, CA
Structure Type: built works - public buildings - health and welfare buildings; built works - public buildings - hospitals
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: constructed 1893
This huge hospital, Chateauesque in style, served a large population of tubercular, alcoholic and mentally ill patients. It opened in 1893, and was a main public institution of its kind in Southern CA at the time. In 1916, it was one of the complex's three main treatment buildings, the other two being a Convalescent Hospital and Tuberculosis Pavilions.
PCAD id: 15532